When it comes to doing up the house flooring, marbles, red floors, designer tiles or even wooden slabs are common ones that are seen all over. But have you heard of the Japanese tatami mats which when ...

For three generations, the Morita family has been wrapping, stitching and trimming modular blocks of woven grass, known as tatami, in Tokyo's old downtown. But now, beset by cheap knockoffs and ...

Artisan Kenji Yamada transforms tatami into dazzling flooring designs that might just keep the tradition alive. A fifth-generation tatami craftsman near Nagoya, Japan is bucking tradition. Tatami, or ...

On a crisp winter’s day, Toshiyuki Namigai, who runs a tatami business in Tokyo, spreads out sheets of woven materials of varying thickness as he speaks with a regular customer — Anton Wormann, a ...